Jeb Bush: Only Christians should be allowed refugee status in response to Paris attack

[kpete]

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said over the weekend that the U.S. should respond to the terrorist attacks in Paris by carefully screening out Syrian refugees who are not Christians.

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“There are a lot of Christians in Syria that have no place now,” he explained. “They’ll be either executed or imprisoned, either by Assad or by ISIS. And I think we should have — we should focus our efforts as it relates to the Christians that are being slaughtered.”

Tapper wondered how screeners would know which refugees were Christians.

“We do that all the time,” Bush insisted. “I think we need to be — obviously — very, very cautious. This also calls to mind the need to protect our borders, our southern border particularly.”




more of this idiot here:
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/jeb-bush-only-christians-should-be-allowed-refugee-status-in-response-to-paris-attack/

[enough]

1. That didn't take long. (nt)

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Because of course non-Christian terrorists wouldn't lie about being Christian. nt

[C_U_L8R]

3. I'm that's like saying

All people named Bush should be tried for war crimes.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

4. Under what circumstances are we currently screening for Christians?

He says we do it all the time. It is pretty easy to pretend to be a Christian. I'm curious what the fool proof method is for picking out Christians from non-Christians. He seems to be implying that any non-Christians are not worth saving. How very Christ like of him.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. Just about every domestic terrorist attack

we've had was by fanatical ChristiansThink Oklahoma City.

[linuxman]

6. McVeigh wasn't a Christian terrorist.

He would fall under White Supremacist and anti-government extremism, but not Christian.

He never practiced religion in his adult life, and is on the record saying he didn't even believe in hell. Not exactly a fundamentalist, it would seem.

[Yorktown]

7. That was yesterday. Tomorrow's terrorism will be mostly islamic.

fundamentalist Christians, fundamentalist Muslims, I strongly dislike both.

But the latter are the surging wave.

[struggle4progress]

8. He's desperate: he's running 5th in FL at 11%; he's at 8% in GA and NH; and

he's at 4% in TX. He's hoping to grab some of the wackingelical vote away from Carson and Cruz

[Marr]

9. Bush's statement is idiotic pandering, but I think there *should* be overt efforts to screen out

Islamic fundamentalists. That much seems obvious.

I recently read an opinion poll of Muslim communities in Britain and, I believe France. There was clear majority support (70%+) for the idea that the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists should have been criminally prosecuted for drawing their pictures, and that people generally should be criminally prosecuted for criticizing Islam.

In other words, these were very much mainstream attitudes in the Muslim community, but they are utterly at odds with modern, western ideals of free speech and secularism. I think it's simply absurd to expect people to welcome immigrants who don't respect the most fundamental ideas on which their society is based. It's a recipe for this kind of terrorism.

[napkinz]

10. only Muslims commit terrorist acts? hey Jeb! ...

Here are 8 Christian Terrorist Organizations That Equal ISIS

The right-wing is quick to condemn all of Islam like it’s a singular entity, and hold every Muslim accountable for the actions of a handful bad apples. As I’ve often said, no one religion — not even Buddhism — has the “right” to claim they’re non-violent. Holy War is one of those things that cuts across all religions equally. And while you can point this out to right-wingers, they won’t listen: they’re quick to invoke Boko Haram, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Al-Sheebab, or some other terrorist agency and pretend they’re the sum total of all Muslims.

Well, there are Christian terrorist agencies that are just as scary, and some of them just as bad if not worse, than ISIS. A few of these you may have heard of, but since our so-called “liberal media” gets cold feet at naming Christian Terrorism what it is, some of them slip under the radar or aren’t as associated with Christian terrorism as they should be in the popular imagination.

read more: http://aattp.org/here-are-8-christian-terrorist-organizations-that-equal-isis/

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. And those good Christian anti-abortion doctor killers.

They're very Christian. One of their organizations is called the Army of God. They talk about it all the time. And they think the solution to abortion, when you're "pro-life" is to KILL doctors!!

Dr. Barnett Slepian
Dr. David Gunn
Dr. George Tiller

And several clinic workers and escorts. Adult humans.
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Tiller was shot TWICE. First time by a woman named Shelley Shannon, in the arms. He recovered. The second time was in his church lobby on a Sunday before church which was apparently a point-blank head shot.

[MisterP]

11. what, like under the bakufu? Jeb's an idiot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumi-e